Efficient Nd: YAG laser end pumped by a high–power multistripe laser–diode bar with multiprism array coupling

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1430-1435

  Yamaguchi, Satoshi ^a   Kobayashi, Tetsuro ^a   Saito, Yoshimasa ^a   Chiba, Koichi ^a  

^a NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

End pumping; Laser diode bar; Multiprism array; Nd:YAG laser

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; LENSES; PRISMS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ACOUSTOOPTIC Q SWITCH; END PUMPING; MULTIPRISM ARRAYS; OPTICAL COLLIMATION; WAVELENGTH;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0030100444     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.001430     Document Type: Article

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